It really could be dependent on the condition of the deer herd and population. There are places where numbers are just SO high that, that kind of thinking is perfectly right to thin the critters. Once thinned you go about selective killing. In many areas deer are severely overpopulated. Some people just flat prefer younger tender meat. If they have a tag and want to shoot an 60 or 75 pound doe.... so be it. I don' t, but I know people who do. I hunt with someone who passes up all sorts of bucks waiting on some tasty morsel to walk by. I live in an area of limited land access, low hunter numbers and therefore we have UNLIMITED doe permits. I also belong to an organization that is called upon to go into residential areas and take out deer by a variety of means... depending on circumstances. If you hunt one of those properties the rules are.... " You better shoot... and it doesn' t matter what it is" .(unless there is a no buck restriction) They call on us to take them out, plain and simple. In those properties we' re called in for a reason. They really don' t care if Bill Jordan wants to shoot a Pope and Young deer. They want him dead before he eats all the daylillies.

When I go to other areas I make the rules... FOR ME. I don' t try to tell everyone else what they should do so I can enjoy hunting. I paid for tags in several states and let lots of bucks walk by that would have been dead here in Maryland. I also have a lot of those unfilled tags hanging around the basement. My last trip to Ohio I passed 4 bucks the last night that would have been dead here. If I' m hunting a crop damage permit... if it has no horns and is brown... IT' S Probably DOWN.